Press statement of Senator Loren Legarda

On BFAD warning not enough

The Bureau of Food and Drug (BFAD) must go beyond issuing a warning to drugstores and the public about the sale of fake flu vaccines, using the genuine brand name Vaxigrip. BFAD must coordinate with law enforcement agencies to conduct entrapment operations and prosecute those behind the sale of fake Vaxigrip vaccines because they are endangering lives.

BFAD must also determine what other medicines, if any, had been counterfeited and to cause their immediate pullout from the market. Drugstores found to be selling fake medicines must be closed and its owners prosecuted too at the fullest extent of the law.